The Mandarin, the Musician and the Mage
T. K. Whitaker, Sean O Riada, Thomas Kinsella and the Lessons of Ireland’s Mid-Twentieth-Century Revival
Samenvatting
Argues that the seeds of Ireland’s transformation into a globalized, modern state were sown were sown between the mid 1950s and 1960s and at the heart of this revival were three men; T K Whitaker, the youthful Secretary of the Department of Finance, Sean O’Riada, musician and composer and Thomas Kinsella, poet, translator and academic.

